If
you check up on your “sections” you will find
that a section of land is one mile by one mile
square (640 acres) – a square with sides one
mile long. If you divide the section into 1/4s,
each 1/4 section will have 1/2mile sides
thus Enos’ 1/4
section was a half-mile square. Since it was the
N.W. 1/4 section of Section 32, per Plat No. 9
above, this puts it squarely within the confines
of the “corporate” lines for the city of Exline.What’s a quarter-section?Try http://www.thefreedictionary.com/quarter%20section.
As measured by the speedometer of my
car, the drawn square is 1/2 mile x 1/2 mile.
The darkened lot in lower center of the map is Troy Conger lot #2.

Here
is a 1915 document which does better job of
showing location of Exline in section no. 32. As
you can see, Exline, excepting the northeast
corner, is located within the confines ofSection
No.32’s NorthWest
Quarter Section. The Corporate Line is a further
one quarter of a quarter-section, outside Exline
city limits and represented by a dashed line on
the plat, or map.Those
persons
wanting to see a better copy of this map should
go to the following site and look for ‘maps’:http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaappano(........ this link no longer works but
it can be found in Iowa Maps)